Famous quotes containing the words boy and/or land:
“Do you know how poetry started? I always think that it started when a cave boy came running back to the cave, through the tall grass, shouting as he ran, Wolf, wolf, and there was no wolf. His baboon-like parents, great sticklers for the truth, gave him a hiding, no doubt, but poetry had been bornthe tall story had been born in the tall grass.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“It seems, just now,
To be happening so very fast;
Despite all the land left free
For the first time I feel somehow
That it isnt going to last....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
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